“In real life, your history does not have to dictate your destiny…”
I don’t think that there’s any sentence that better encapsulates The Holdovers other than this one.
It’s just so nice to see that even in his 50s Paul Hunham is still going to chase after his now reclaimed academic dream. Also find it really beautiful that Hunham, Tully & Mary were able to save each other from their own psychological prisons/purgatories and show that there’s still hope, love and happiness to be pursued out there.